Incorporating human rights education into school curricula is the goal of this joint project of the Anne Frank Educational Center and the Masar Institute of Education in Nazareth with its affiliated alternative school and the Independent School Frankfurt am Main. A central question is: what does a strong civil society means for the society’s majority as well as for its minorities.

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Migration, poverty, equal opportunity, and protection of the environment – these are just a few of today’s challenges we all face, not only in Germany and Israel but around the world. Such challenges cannot be solved by nation-states and governments alone and therefore call for new forms of cooperation between the public, private, and third sectors. The program “X-Change for Competence” wants to contribute to fostering new links and interactions between these sectors in order to bring actors together to collectively take on responsibility.

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Bilateral equal opportunity: Socially and economically disadvantaged families require special support in attaining better opportunities for full participation in society. In Germany, like in Israel, the question of whether the support or assistance should start with the parents or the children is a sensitive one. “Empowering Families at Risk” provides a clear answer – it should start with both.

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Preservation or destruction: The question of how to approach historical architecture is particularly controversial when it comes to Nazi architecture and buildings. Fifteen students each from Tel Aviv and Berlin examine on site in Berlin the answers provided to this question since Germany’s reunification. They also have the chance to test out new views.

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Rahat and the Negev region of Israel are predominantly Bedouin areas. International volunteers assist in an After School Program for Bedouin youth as a way to better facilitate their participation in Israeli society.

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Komm mit, commit yourself, kum mitnadev (hebr. = get up volunteer), be a part of it – the volunteer program „Kom-Mit-Nadev“ brings to mind a number of motivating associations. Since September 2010, this pilot project invites 20 young adults from Israel, who, as volunteers, are involved in civil society projects in Germany. Through their work, these volunteers discover a country and its residents from a new perspective.

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Music is a universal language – and yet it also retains many cultural attributes. Together German and Israeli composition students pursue this simultaneity of what not only connects but is at the same time unique: The project “Tel Aviv meets Stuttgart – Stuttgart meets Tel Aviv” offers students an opportunity for shared work and a personal exchange.

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Dok-Station - an entire world of film exists behind this short designation. Indeed, the cooperation between the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) and Tel Aviv University provides the possibility for students of both institutions to collectively develop film projects.

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A friendly match on all levels: Two soccer clubs from Berlin and Jerusalem build bridges – personally, bilaterally, and in sport. In doing so, the two clubs not only meet each other on the field. People come together to talk about soccer, their social engagement in club work and much more.

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Diversity needs dialogue. But what does this in fact mean for educational work in museums and for group processes? Who communicates with whom? Together, the Berlin-based organization „Gesicht Zeigen! Für ein weltoffenes Deutschland“ (“Show Your Face! For a cosmopolitan Germany”), the Art and Cultural Educational Center of Museums in Nuremberg, and the Center for Humanistic Education at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum in the Western Galilee are developing new pedagogical strategies for a peaceful living together.

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In the everyday life of today’s young people being homesick can mean so much more than a longing for a physical place. The German-Israeli theater project “Homesick,” initiated by “Glashaus – Verein der Nutzer der Brotfabrik e. V.” addresses precisely these facets of longing – for example, for something lost, for far-away places, for freedom. These are highly charged themes that reflect contemporary society (not only) in Germany and Israel.

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There isn’t just one memory of the past in a multicultural society, there are many. This is also true for the Shoah. High School Students from Berlin and Jerusalem develop together collective forms of remembrance that fulfill not only the requirements of public remembrance but, just as importantly, the students’ own understanding of their (family) histories.

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When youth and young adults with a migrant background tell stories about their lives, then it becomes a “mixstory,” which is also the name of the media-based initiative in the Rhein-Main region of Germany. At the center of this project “Mixstory – An Encounter with Israel,” is a joint trip to Israel to meet with other young people and exchange “mixed stories.”

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Not only is the gender identity of young people in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Movement part of their self perception, but also their concern with the social and political dimensions of gender relations. The project "Kadima" offers young adults from Germany and Israel the possibility to develop new concepts of social and political participation and self-determination.

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For years now, the cooperation between the Alice Solomon School of Applied Sciences in Berlin and the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa has proved successful. At the center of this success is the yearly student exchange program. In 2011, the program is titled “Berlin Meets Haifa Plus” and focuses on the topics of democratization and the politics of commemoration. Both issues are an important part of German and Israeli public debates and academic discourses. 

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Students and academics from the Humanities and Social Sciences from Kiel and Tel Aviv come together for a 10-day seminar titled, "Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion in Diverse Societies." They work together on pressing topics such as cultural diversity and immigration. The goal is to find manageable analyses of societal developments for an everyday praxis.

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A unique event happened in Bat-Yam in Israel in 2010 – an innovative architecture and urban art festival “72 Hour Urban Action” took place there for the first time. Ten international teams with participants from architecture, design, the visual arts, and industrial arts joined together for a design mission in a 72-hour real time competition. Now, the integrative planning workshop wants to bring the festival to Stuttgart.

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Israeli school students from Ethiopian immigrant families as well as German youth in Berlin school classes, with and without a migrant background, have a lot in common. For instance, they can both benefit from the opportunity of inter- and transcultural learning. The project, “Identity, Integration and Belonging” has developed possibilities for both target groups to learn more about themselves and the “other” in new ways.

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When twenty students between the ages of 9 and 19 come together to play chamber music for ten days it isn’t just a recital. It’s much more about a chance for young talent as well as a successful cooperation between two of Israel and Germany’s most distinguished conservatories.

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Educational learning processes don’t take place in a vacuum, but rather the interlocking work done in schools, universities, museums, and (youth) organizations as well as relations between countries all play a vital role in transnational learning. The conference “Diversity – Education – Belonging” continues the work of a dialogue already underway and, in doing so, sets new standards.

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Building a house can have multiple meanings. In the literal sense, a building is created – metaphorically speaking, however, networks are built. A group of Berlin structural engineers in training and Israeli youth will do both in summer 2011. They will work together on constructing a staircase for a kibbutz school and in doing so can create solid connections.

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The cooperation between Israeli trauma experts and school psychologists in Baden-Württemberg focuses on transferring knowledge, sharing experiences, and working jointly on developing concepts with regards to crisis recovery in Winnenden.

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This project aims to provide a platform for artistic exchange between young composers studying at conservatories in Tel Aviv and Stuttgart. The project’s main events are a concert and a joint composition seminar in January 2011 at the conservatory in Stuttgart.

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The bilateral project brings together scholars and young academics from both countries to examine current challenges to German and Israeli societies. The main aim is the consolidation of a bilateral network between young leaders.

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What are some differences between social work in Israel and in Germany – and what are the similarities? “Berlin Meets Haifa” brings together BA students from the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa and students from the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin to pursue these questions relating to both the curriculum and the praxis on the ground.

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At first glance, forty-three experts from the field of educational work coming together at a German-Israeli conference may not seem like anything special. But when the collective goal of the meeting is to develop new ways to deal with issues of identity and history in an ethnically and culturally diverse society – then we have an experiment in bilateral cooperation between two states with similar and different societal realities.

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Soccer is popular just about everywhere in the world – this goes for Germany as well as for Israel. In October 2010, young fans of German and Israeli soccer clubs are coming together to watch live soccer matches and to discuss racist and anti-Semitic prejudices of the sport’s fan base.

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As part of a concert trip in June 2010, composers from Israel and Berlin as well as musicians of the Ensemble Adapter will give joint workshops at conservatories in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Frankfurt am Main, and Berlin.

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Over a period of one year, and with the involvement of students from Erlangen, a performance production is being developed. The artistic realization is mainly in the hands of the Israeli artists from Tadam Company, while ARENA is responsible for implementing all the tasks related to the production.

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Teachers at the Alfred-Müller-Armack-Berufskolleg in Cologne are on their way to Jewish as well as Arab places and schools in Israel to help prepare for an exchange program between German and Israeli students.

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The comic-guide Berlin – Tel Aviv is an intercultural bilingual project that deals with cities like Berlin and Tel Aviv in an innovative manner. The aim of the project is to create a bilingual (German-Hebrew) city guide for Berlin and Tel Aviv vis-à-vis the medium of comics.

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The project brings together 32 girls from diverse backgrounds aged 8 to 14 years from Israel and Halberstadt, Germany.

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How do aspiring filmmakers in Germany and Israel respectively view the other country? Film students from the Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam and the Film & TV Department at Sapir Academic College in Sderot asked themselves this very question and worked together to convey their impressions of the future of German-Israeli relations.

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If the emerging music scenes in Israel and Germany are one thing, it is that they are going places. These various artists, musicians, and bands cannot be assigned to one particular genre; instead they create their own distinct mixture from elements of pop, world music, surf or hip hop. The Project IlanD 2009 was exactly that – its own mixture: It brought together popular acts and newcomers from both countries to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

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An exchange between the Julius Stern Institute at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Jerusalem Music Center brings together young and talented musicians for joint music making.

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